Worst sports moment of the year? Um... cancellation of the Quickie. (Can that count for both?)

Wow, talk about your highs and lows! So: What were YOUR best moments of '06, either sports or otherwise? (I won't make you describe your worst moments. Let's hope they weren't as public as mine.)

Meanwhile, you can talk NFL in the Comments, too, but what's the point when Week 17 is so otherwise meaningless? (Say this for college football's controversial set-up: At least the final week of the regular season meant something -- and it dominated the conversation.)

If I don't connect with you later today, have a safe and enjoyable New Year's Eve, and I'll catch you here tomorrow for Bowl mania.

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I'm late for Festivus, but since it's the end of the year, I'm going to air my major grievance anyway. The Rose Bowl countdown clock may have made me snap.

ESPN really started to piss me off this year. The straw that broke the camel's back may have been the instant history coverage of the OSU-Mich game. Every word spoken on ESPN after that game sounded like it was written in advance. It wasnt even good fun instant history like we used to champion on the MQ--the kind of thing ESPN actually did a decent job on after Rutgers-Louisville. It's just that they were so desperate to be able to call OSU-Mich one of the greatest games of all time that they said, 'hell, if we repreat it enough people will believe it. let's go for it.'

Actually, it was probably the fact that the only ESPN I could watch on Monday was PTI--the rest of the day was pretty much a 12-hour countdown to MNF. That was annoying too. Super annoying.

OR, you know what, maybe it was that I finally started reading sports blogs this year. That may have done it.

Favorite sports moments of the year:1) Watching Gators win the national championship game with 10,000 people in the O-Dome in Gainesville. That was cool.2) Being there for Jarvis Moss.3) Seeing my first game from the bleachers at Wrigley Field. And the Cubs even won.4) Being in Minneapolis for the regional rounds of the NCAA Tournament. Corey Brewer's shot to beat Georgetown happened about 30 feet in front of where we were sitting in the band.5) All day the day after the SEC Championship game was really fun. The transition from barely hopefull to nervous and hopeful, to hopeful and expectant, to downright giddy was fun. And kept me from doing a lick of studying all day.

Best Sporting Moment: Hurricanes win the cup, keeping it in the southeast where it belongs.

Best Personal Sporting Moment: Seeing the Stanley Cup live and in person.

Best Financial Sporting Moment: Florida Gators win the National Championship, securing for me about $200.

Best Olympic Sporting Moment: Kelly Clark's final run in the Snowboarding Halfpipe. Down by a huge margin, she put in a routine that would've put the men to shame. No offense to Hannah Teter, but if Kelly nails that last landing (which sadly she didn't), she deserved Gold. Best moment of the Olympics, and one which absolutely no one but me and (probably) Kelly Clark remembers.

Best Sports Moments: 1. My alma mater, Rutgers, beating Louisville 2. Winning $500 in my fantasy football league - with a margin of victory of half a point in the final3. USA ties Italy in the World Cup

Worst Sports Moments1. My other alma mater, USC, losing to Texas in the Rose Bowl2. USA crapping the bed against Ghana to miss advancing in the World Cup3. My former Hartford Whalers winning the Stanley Cup.. pieces of shit

Watching the "anything you can do, I can do better" race between Adam Morrison and JJ Redick which led to JJ setting all sorts of insane records and gathering more trophies than any college player ever on his way to perhaps becoming the best college player ever.

Worst Sports Moment of the Year -

LSU upsetting the Dukies ending one of the most distinguished college playing careers ever.

Actually, on a neutral court. Which, true, had mostly Gator fans, according to the radio announcers. But still, this team's never been particularly great (excluding last March, of course) away from the O-Dome.

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